Glimpses Of The Next State.Pdf - Spiritualists' National Union

34(17) On March 27, 1905. At a private house. Circle of twelve. Two small hands wereheld in mine for thirty or forty seconds. They were normal in temperature, no so fleshly as mortalhands, and not two-thirds the size of my own.A face presenting itself to a sitter, the voice of a familiar spirit talking in the cabinet, and themedium heard rubbing himself, occurred at the same moment. Simultaneous phenomenaoccurred at every séance; they will not always be repeated in the notes.On April, 10, 1905. At a private house. Circle of thirteen.A woman’s voice sang the last verse of ‘Lead kindly light’ in the cabinet.(18) ON June 5m 1905. At a private house. Circle of thirteen. A. present. Joey said hehad seen me writing in my room, writing my “article” (a short time before I had contributed anarticle to a magazine. He asked me “if I had been ‘Cæsaring’ in the Channel” (an allusion to thesinking of the Afghanistan by HMS Cæsar the flagship of Sir Arthur W. Moore, the previous day).He also told A. that there had been floods at Southsea that day. (Correct). Both of us were ignorantof the fact. When I returned home I found that the basement of my house had been full of water attwo p.m. – a few hours before the séance.On July 10, 1905. At a private house. Circle of thirteen people. Sister Amy made aremark to me alone, indicating precise knowledge of the character of a member of my family. Itwas the sort of remark which would not have emanated from anybody but a woman – and a refinedwoman.(19) On July 17, 1905. At a private house. Circle of fourteen. A. present. Graem madethe following remark: “You all know very well that you only have to hand up a telegraph wire on atree, and all the other trees know about it.” A few weeks before an American patent had reachedEngland, the main feature of which is this: if a telegraph apparatus is attached to a live tree, at itsbase, anyone within a radius of twenty miles can open up communication by doing the same thingwith another live tree; the aerials are the live trees. It is out of the question that Craddock couldhave known anything about this normally; not fifty people in the country had, probably, heard ofit. One of the circle happened to be a wireless telegraphist, whose duty it was to examine patentsfor his principals, and he told me that it had only quite recently been sent to him.On October 16 th , 1905. At a private house. Circle of thirteen. A spirit tried to materialisefrom the floor at the feet or my neighbour. It rose about one foot nine inches, or two feet, showedits arm and drapery in front of the illuminated slate, and then collapsed.(20) On October 29, 1905. At Mr. Craddock’s residence in Pinner. Circle of five. I was theonly person present who claimed no mediumistic gift.The spirit of a relative of mine came to me three times, accompanied on each occasion by agirl, the alleged daughter of my neighbour in the circle. On one of these visits my relative showedher face by an illuminated slate; and once I saw the face of the child as it was dematerialising at hermother’s knee; it was less than half the size of the face of an adult.Joey said; “General D. is here, and wishes me to tell you that he was not really selfish; hethought it best to keep the materialisation’s to themselves, as the conditions would thus be better.”(A conversation had taken place a short time before at Southsea between a lady and myself withreference to some séances she and her husband had held with General D. The lady had said: ”TheGeneral was selfish and would not allow anyone into the circle.” Craddock could have knownnothing normally of this conversation.(21) On November 18, 1905. In my library at Southsea. Table séance with A. alone. Thename “Grimaldi” was spelt out. He was asked what word he could give us next time we met him;he spelt out “Money.” This seemed appropriate, as he and I had been talking of the psychicinquiry into the death of Miss Money at a previous séance at Pinner.